(5) Top Quality and (3) Blazinbeauty look like a cinch exacta in the $75,000 Washington Oaks which has a 6:15 p.m. Pacific post time.
Top Quality, trained by Blaine Wright, will be favored in the 1 1/8 miles race that drew five horses. She ran off an hid from Blazinbeauty in her first start at Emerald in the one-mile $50,000 Irish Day Stakes June 25. However, Blazinbeauty, trained by Frank Lucarelli, will appreciate the extra furlong she gets to work with in the Oaks.
Kevin Orozco replaces the injured Juan Gutierrez aboard Top Quality. Gutierrez, Eliska Kubinova, and David Martin are off their mounts due to injuries suffered in a three-horse spill in the sixth race last night.
Here are the scratches.
Race 5: (4) The Boss is Back
Race 7: (2) Horsty
Race 8: (5) Solemnly Swear
Race 10: (3) Wood N Spoon
Rider changes:
Race 2: (7) Erick Lopez
Race 4: (5) Francisco Diaz-Lopez
Race 6: (6) Isaias Enriquez, (7) Leonal Camacho-Flores
Race 7: Kevin Orozco
Race 8: (4) Francisco Diaz-Lopez, (7) Jose Zunino
Race 9: (5) Kevin Orozco
The track is fast.